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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...more

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and br...more

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later o...more

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The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.